Android Application
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Android apps to lend it edge?
News Analysts are split on how much impact the growing application ecosystem on Google's new mobile OS will make to the eventual device sales.
Tags: Open source, Mobile applications, Development/design, App, Mobile, Google Inc., SDK, operating system, Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone
Android developers get native-code kit
News Android Native Development Kit lets application writers reuse code in native languages such as C and C++, making it possible to write certain high-performing apps.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, C, JVM, Developer, SDK, C++, API, performance, signal processing
Google move paves way for Firefox on Android
News Mozilla likes idea of bringing its browser to Google's mobile operating system--this could be possible with release of Native Development Kit.
Tags: Open source, Browser, Protocols and platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Web Browser, operating system, Mozilla Corp., phone, Mozilla Firefox
Thanks for a great 2008
Blogs 2008 was a great year for enterprise mobility, with plenty of new technologies and gadgets to keep us mobile workers hap...
Google establishes Android team in Taiwan
News The technical support staff will help Taiwanese hardware makers fit Google's operating system onto mobile phones.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Wind River Systems Inc., Android Mobile-phone Operating System, Android Application, phone, Linux, Taiwan
Building a Google Android application
Blogs The new Google Android HTC G1 smartphone promises to cover the middle-ground, between the Apple iPhone and Windows Mobil...
T-Mobile to unveil first Android phone shortly
News T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to launch the new Google Android phone, which is expected next month.
Tags: Smart phones, Open source, Mobile platforms, Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Developer, Touch Screen, phone, T-Mobile, Google Android
At eBay, is Skype there to stay?
News To earn its keep at eBay, the Internet calling service needs to goose growth and gain traction on mobile phones. Otherwise, a sale may be in the offing.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Mobile/Wireless, Skype Technologies S.A., Google Inc., eBay Inc., phone, software, revenue, Apple iPhone
Android modders to cut Google Apps out of ROM
News Maker of CyanogenMod, a modified version of Google's Android mobile operating system, is to distribute the product without proprietary Google Apps included.
Tags: Open source, ROM, YouTube Inc., Google Android, Google Talk, blog, Google Apps, Google Maps, Open source
T-Mobile announces second Google phone
News Summer 2009 is shaping up to be the season of the smartphone, as one device is launched after another. Next up is T-Mobile's Google Android phone, the myTouch.
Tags: Development/design, Open source, Apple Inc., Smart Phone, Apple iPhone 3G, Device, Google Inc., phone, T-Mobile, Google Android
Mobile app controls won't deter malware
News Application development controls are no "silver bullet" to keeping mobile malware, say industry watchers, but certification--voluntary or otherwise--ought to exist.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Malware, Security, Conference, Cell Phone, San Francisco, mobile application, Mobile platforms
Google carves an Android path through open source world
News Company is committed to many open source tenets with its Android mobile phone software--but it's willing to step on a few open source toes, too.
Tags: Open source, Mobile platforms/communications, Business development/management, Innovation, Google Inc., Android, GPL, Wind River Systems Inc., phone, software
Google releases final Android programming kit
News The new software developer kit can be used to produce software for T-Mobile's G1 and other Android phones to come later.
Tags: Programming languages, Open source, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile, Google Inc., SDK, operating system, Advertisement, phone, Programming
Google's Android: It's not just for phones
News One influential partner backing the open source operating system says it will show up in consumer electronics and cars, too.
Tags: Open source, Smart phones, Google Inc., Wind River Systems Inc., phone, software, processor, keyboard, Google Android, Linux
Coders to get 70 percent of Android Market revenue
News Google has promised that beginning next year, programmers will get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system.
Tags: Open source, Mobile platforms, Smart phones, Sales/revenue, Apple Inc., Application, Mobile, Google Inc., Programmer, phone
